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70th Year - No. 163 Good Morning! It's Tuesday, March 28, 1 97 1 4 Vixvs - 1 5 Onts I
WASHINGTON ( UPI) Preside
Carter, pledging to " reverse" deteri-oration
of the nation's cities, Monday
asked Congress to spend up to $ 10.4
billion over two years to aid depressed
areas, slow suburban development and
encourage industry to return to the
cities.
Carter, unveiling his long- awaite- d
proposal, also asked for $ 5.1 billion in
tax and loan incentives to lure business
and industry back into economically
distressed areas.
" To a greater extent than ever
before, the future of our cities and the
destiny of our nation are joined,"
Carter said in a five- pa- ge speech at a
White House ceremony, while members
cf the National Conference of Mayors
stood by.
" But let there be no doubt that today
marks a turning point."
His policy package asks Congress
for:
v Authority for potential new spend-ing
of $ 4.4 billion m fiscal 1979, and
another $ 5 billion in 1980 for a wide
range of programs covering such areas
as jobs, housing, parks and even crime
prevention.
Up to $ 1.7 billion a year over two
years in tax incentives to businesses
and industry that locate m urban
centers.
Approval to create a National De-velopment
Bank, to be run by three
cabinet heads, which would provide
incentives, including direct grants and
low- co- st loans, to businesses willing to
create jobs in inner city areas. The
bank would need approval for $ 2.2
billion in loan guarantees the first year
Carter cited " abrupt swings of
policy" m federal urban programs
dating back to the 1950s, most of them
failing although billions of dollars were
spent.
He said that as a result cities have
been allowed to decay and it is time to
form a " new partnership" between the
federal, state and local governments
and private sectors to " reverse that
deterioration "
" For those who live in our urban
areas, the gravest flaw in past federal
policy was not that we failed to spend
money," Carter said " It was that too
many of the programs were ineffective
and too many that did work had their
benefits cancelled out by other federal
and state activities "
The proposal, worked out following
months of internal bickering among his
cabinet- lev- el aides, would require all
federal agency decisions to conform
with the urban policy.
It would provide federal money only
to cities that draft detailed plans m
accord with the national policy
aimed at reversing middle- clas- s flight
from the cities and at helping the poor
find jobs and decent housing
Carter expressed irritation with
reports he had made major budget cuts
in the policy before approving recom-mendations
of a White House task
force.
" Contrary to previous reports, the
urban policy has come through strong
and unscathed," he told the mayors
The National Development Bank
would be overseen by Mrs Harris,
Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps
and Treasury Secretary Michael
Blumenthal.
It would make direct loans of up to 75
percent of a company's capital costs
with a $ 15 million maximum if it
located or refurbished its facilities in a
depressed area
The bank also would buy mortgages
from private lending institutions to
cover the last 25 percent of costs it did
not underwrite
As an additional incentive, Carter's
proposed policy contains $ 200 million to
cover a 5 percent added investment tax
credit for companies which relocate,
making them eligible for a maximum
15 percent credit.
The program also would provide $ 200
million a year in grants for states which
demonstrate they are putting their
resources into helping distressed cities
The program also includes provisions
for direct funding of neighborhood
groups, which have the keen interest of
Carter and his wife, Rosalynn
Aiiisiijfiii;
Patrol unit
capability
may expand
By Mary Jo Coplin
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY Missouri
highway patrolmen soon may begin
investigating crimes that occur
nowhere near the highway.
Although state highway patrolmen
have had the authority since 1943 to in-vestigate
any crime, legislation
recently passed by the Missouri House
will establish an investigative unit
within the patrol with the sole responsi-bility
of investigating crimen and '
assisting local law enforcement
agencies.
Under provision of the bill, the super-intendent
of the highway patrol would
be required to assign from within the
patrol's ranks not more than SO officers
to fulfill this investigative function.
This would have to be done without
increasing the. -- overall number of --
Gcereentfoepatroi.- -- -, - .,,.....
Rep. Ron Bockenkamp, D- Bon- ne
Terre, said increasing the number of
patrolmen available to conduct
criminal investigations will improve
law enforcement in the state.
" We are finally recognizing the need
for the highway patrol to assist local
law enforcement officers and this bill
will give them more time to do that,"
said Bockenkamp, who sponsored the
legislation.
The patrol members assigned to the
special unit would be trained to assist
local law enforcement agencies in in-vestigating
any crime, said Lt. Col.
E. W. Van Winkle, assistant superin-tendent
of the patrol. " We'll help in all
crimes from forgery to rapes to
homicides and burglaries."
The highway patrol already has
available many of the resources
necessary for an investigative unit, Van
Winkle said. In addition to crime
laboratories, the patrol has trained
polygraph operators, bomb and arson
investigators and a narcotics squad.
Currently, the patrol also has a
criminal division of 28 patrolmen who
work part- tim- e in these areas.
But Rep. Richard DeCoster, D- Cant- on,
argued that the bill would pave
the way for abuses of power by highway
patrolmen. " This bill will change the
highway patrol's image from that of a
( See POSSIBLE, Page 11)
LceHeyer
Herman Boeckman, Centertown, Mo., adds more sandbags to
help keep the Missouri River from flooding U. S. 63 north of
Jefferson City.
i
An old railroad boxcar used as an office by
Capitol Sand Co. is inundated by rising Missouri It's spring I
Sum brings relief from winter
By Laura Kavesh
Missourian staff writer
An elderly woman walked along
Ninth Street, her plastic boots moving
gingerly through the puddles that
became ever larger as the snow that
broke Columbia's snowfall record
began to melt.
" It's such a beautiful day," she said.
" I know I can say for sure now that
winter is over "
She may be nght Although the
National Weather Service foresees an
above- norm- al amount of precipitation
for the next 30 days, forecasters
suspect that Columbians can count on
rain, not snow.
MJkeAsher
River water at Cedar City. In the background is
the Missouri Capitol Building.
Still, those traditional April showers
have been known to turn into April
flurries. In 1974 4 inches ( 11.3 cen-timeters)
of snow fell in April in
Columbia.
" I'm fairly optimistic about the
weather," said Russ Marshall of the
Flood hits St. Charles 14
Weather Service, " But there's always
that chance . "
Of the 8 mches ( 20 centimeters) of
snow that fell Friday and Saturday, 6
mches ( 15 centimeters) melted under
the Monday sun
The melting snow that caused
pedestrians to hike up their pants and
sent water cascading down Columbia
streets also caused minor flooding
along streams and creeks in the area.
Levees prevented serious damage m
Boone County, however. The Missouri
River was only slightly above the flood
stage and should be back to normal by
today, according to the weather
service.
Columbians who slogged through the
puddles Monday will not quickly forget
the 54 9 mches ( 137.3 centimeters) of
snow that plagued the city beginning
in November. The total reached last
week was 8.7 inches ( 21.8 centimeters)
above the previous record, which was
set in 1911- 1- 2.
Evangelist to make final resurrection try
REEDS SPRING, Mo. ( UPI) Tent
evangelist Daniel Rogers said Monday
he will make a final attempt today to
resurrect his frozen 80- year-- old mother
from the dead.
Rogers said if his bid failed to resur-rect
Gladys Rogers frozen since her
Feb. 2 death he would honor an
earlier promise to Missouri authorities
to bury her body Wednesday.
He said he would not request more
tone if he fails to raise his mother's
body in his third resurrection attempt
in the past two weeks at the Clarkson
Mortuary.
If he changes his mind, however, au-thorities
said state law could be then- hand- s
from forcing Rogers to bury the
body if it were preserved and sealed
' and therefore not a health hazard.
Bill Kirch, prosecuting attorney in
Stone County where the body is located,
said Monday, " There's nothing as far
as I know that's illegal about keeping a
body frozen"
The director of the state's bureau of
vital records, Charles Bell, agreed. " As
long as it doesn't constitute a public
health hazard, we're powerless to do
anything," he said.
State officials also said they have no
reason to believe Rogers will break the
agreement. But in case that happens,
they have been examining their legal
options to force bunal of the corpse.
Dr. Olin Griffin, a state health offi-cer,
said if Rogers fads to honor Wed-nesday's
burial date, he will refer the
matter to the state attorney general's
office.
" He ( Rogers) told me on the tele-phone
he would bury her on the 29th and
if he does not, I am gomg to turn this
over to Assistant Attorney General
Luren Wood," Gnffin said.
Wood said Monday if Rogers did not
proceed with the burial he might ask
the Stone County Circuit Court to order
the evangelist to do so by declaring the
body a public nuisance on moral
grounds.
But a lack of complaints, about the
body from area residents seems to
indicate they do not consider it a
nuisance, Kirch said.
-- Inside today r
Climbing the waiting list
Rosie Lee Murphy is one of 150 persons waiting for an
apartment owned by the Columbia Housing Authority. She
used to be No. 62 on the waiting list; now she is No. 10.
Why Mrs. Murphy and the others are waiting and what
the housing authority is doing about it is the subject of a
story in People, Page 5.
, He's still a boy of summer
One of the boys of summer, Johnny Bench, is now 30. To
him, the season is a grind.
" Is this what it's like to be 30?" he asks.
Roger Kahn talks with Johnny Bench in today's Sports
section, Page 5A.
And tomorrow
Wednesday is savings day h j
Wednesday is the big coupon day for lly
Columbia Missourian readers. With IX
spring making its second visit this year, dCf
you'll want to get out of the house and " sTgf
take along the many savings offered in 1fS Missourian coupons.
Jn town today
9 a. m. County Court meeting, County- Cit- y Building. --
MkwiellstiBgBaPagel3 ArUaEpperses r OfgKMS 4w isdhaborta for school board seat
By Karen Woolford
Missourian staff writer
The Columbia Board of Education is still showing signs of
the " close- knitnes- s" of past years, says Aran Epperson. As
one of three candidates for two seats on the board, he hopes
to break into the tight circle April 4 with the promise of a
fresh approach and new ideas.
Epperson, 40, is a cooperative extension specialist with
the University College of Public and Community Services.
He spends most of his tune consulting with Missouri park
boards, city councils and school districts on finances, bond- issue-s
and federal grants. He ran unsuccessfully for the
school board two years ago.
" We are suffering from the close- knitne- ss of years past
6-- -, ' & n -- .. f " v , t Schi eictsin ' 78
"" ummmmitmMmmmmtmiiimmmiiumA in i in ammimmm! mt.
between administrators and the school board," Epperson
says. " They apparently had made their decisions before-hand
and bad come to the meeting to approve them.
" The public is concerned about what goes on outside the
board meetings. There is the feeling mat derisions are stfll
being made under the table and in the back offices."
The results of a sruvey he commissioned show over-whelming
support for a state audit of the school system,
Epperson says. From 73 to 80 percent of those polled
favored the audit, in spite of the cost This reflects an in-terest,
if not dissatisfaction, in how district business Is
being conducted, he says. -
He can provide a new perspective on old problems, he
( See CANDIDATE, Page 14)

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ttj. 65SOL
'& 4b& 44 JlXfc'rMg Kentucky wins I fHlf Va Story on Page 6
70th Year - No. 163 Good Morning! It's Tuesday, March 28, 1 97 1 4 Vixvs - 1 5 Onts I
WASHINGTON ( UPI) Preside
Carter, pledging to " reverse" deteri-oration
of the nation's cities, Monday
asked Congress to spend up to $ 10.4
billion over two years to aid depressed
areas, slow suburban development and
encourage industry to return to the
cities.
Carter, unveiling his long- awaite- d
proposal, also asked for $ 5.1 billion in
tax and loan incentives to lure business
and industry back into economically
distressed areas.
" To a greater extent than ever
before, the future of our cities and the
destiny of our nation are joined,"
Carter said in a five- pa- ge speech at a
White House ceremony, while members
cf the National Conference of Mayors
stood by.
" But let there be no doubt that today
marks a turning point."
His policy package asks Congress
for:
v Authority for potential new spend-ing
of $ 4.4 billion m fiscal 1979, and
another $ 5 billion in 1980 for a wide
range of programs covering such areas
as jobs, housing, parks and even crime
prevention.
Up to $ 1.7 billion a year over two
years in tax incentives to businesses
and industry that locate m urban
centers.
Approval to create a National De-velopment
Bank, to be run by three
cabinet heads, which would provide
incentives, including direct grants and
low- co- st loans, to businesses willing to
create jobs in inner city areas. The
bank would need approval for $ 2.2
billion in loan guarantees the first year
Carter cited " abrupt swings of
policy" m federal urban programs
dating back to the 1950s, most of them
failing although billions of dollars were
spent.
He said that as a result cities have
been allowed to decay and it is time to
form a " new partnership" between the
federal, state and local governments
and private sectors to " reverse that
deterioration "
" For those who live in our urban
areas, the gravest flaw in past federal
policy was not that we failed to spend
money," Carter said " It was that too
many of the programs were ineffective
and too many that did work had their
benefits cancelled out by other federal
and state activities "
The proposal, worked out following
months of internal bickering among his
cabinet- lev- el aides, would require all
federal agency decisions to conform
with the urban policy.
It would provide federal money only
to cities that draft detailed plans m
accord with the national policy
aimed at reversing middle- clas- s flight
from the cities and at helping the poor
find jobs and decent housing
Carter expressed irritation with
reports he had made major budget cuts
in the policy before approving recom-mendations
of a White House task
force.
" Contrary to previous reports, the
urban policy has come through strong
and unscathed," he told the mayors
The National Development Bank
would be overseen by Mrs Harris,
Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps
and Treasury Secretary Michael
Blumenthal.
It would make direct loans of up to 75
percent of a company's capital costs
with a $ 15 million maximum if it
located or refurbished its facilities in a
depressed area
The bank also would buy mortgages
from private lending institutions to
cover the last 25 percent of costs it did
not underwrite
As an additional incentive, Carter's
proposed policy contains $ 200 million to
cover a 5 percent added investment tax
credit for companies which relocate,
making them eligible for a maximum
15 percent credit.
The program also would provide $ 200
million a year in grants for states which
demonstrate they are putting their
resources into helping distressed cities
The program also includes provisions
for direct funding of neighborhood
groups, which have the keen interest of
Carter and his wife, Rosalynn
Aiiisiijfiii;
Patrol unit
capability
may expand
By Mary Jo Coplin
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY Missouri
highway patrolmen soon may begin
investigating crimes that occur
nowhere near the highway.
Although state highway patrolmen
have had the authority since 1943 to in-vestigate
any crime, legislation
recently passed by the Missouri House
will establish an investigative unit
within the patrol with the sole responsi-bility
of investigating crimen and '
assisting local law enforcement
agencies.
Under provision of the bill, the super-intendent
of the highway patrol would
be required to assign from within the
patrol's ranks not more than SO officers
to fulfill this investigative function.
This would have to be done without
increasing the. -- overall number of --
Gcereentfoepatroi.- -- -, - .,,.....
Rep. Ron Bockenkamp, D- Bon- ne
Terre, said increasing the number of
patrolmen available to conduct
criminal investigations will improve
law enforcement in the state.
" We are finally recognizing the need
for the highway patrol to assist local
law enforcement officers and this bill
will give them more time to do that,"
said Bockenkamp, who sponsored the
legislation.
The patrol members assigned to the
special unit would be trained to assist
local law enforcement agencies in in-vestigating
any crime, said Lt. Col.
E. W. Van Winkle, assistant superin-tendent
of the patrol. " We'll help in all
crimes from forgery to rapes to
homicides and burglaries."
The highway patrol already has
available many of the resources
necessary for an investigative unit, Van
Winkle said. In addition to crime
laboratories, the patrol has trained
polygraph operators, bomb and arson
investigators and a narcotics squad.
Currently, the patrol also has a
criminal division of 28 patrolmen who
work part- tim- e in these areas.
But Rep. Richard DeCoster, D- Cant- on,
argued that the bill would pave
the way for abuses of power by highway
patrolmen. " This bill will change the
highway patrol's image from that of a
( See POSSIBLE, Page 11)
LceHeyer
Herman Boeckman, Centertown, Mo., adds more sandbags to
help keep the Missouri River from flooding U. S. 63 north of
Jefferson City.
i
An old railroad boxcar used as an office by
Capitol Sand Co. is inundated by rising Missouri It's spring I
Sum brings relief from winter
By Laura Kavesh
Missourian staff writer
An elderly woman walked along
Ninth Street, her plastic boots moving
gingerly through the puddles that
became ever larger as the snow that
broke Columbia's snowfall record
began to melt.
" It's such a beautiful day," she said.
" I know I can say for sure now that
winter is over "
She may be nght Although the
National Weather Service foresees an
above- norm- al amount of precipitation
for the next 30 days, forecasters
suspect that Columbians can count on
rain, not snow.
MJkeAsher
River water at Cedar City. In the background is
the Missouri Capitol Building.
Still, those traditional April showers
have been known to turn into April
flurries. In 1974 4 inches ( 11.3 cen-timeters)
of snow fell in April in
Columbia.
" I'm fairly optimistic about the
weather," said Russ Marshall of the
Flood hits St. Charles 14
Weather Service, " But there's always
that chance . "
Of the 8 mches ( 20 centimeters) of
snow that fell Friday and Saturday, 6
mches ( 15 centimeters) melted under
the Monday sun
The melting snow that caused
pedestrians to hike up their pants and
sent water cascading down Columbia
streets also caused minor flooding
along streams and creeks in the area.
Levees prevented serious damage m
Boone County, however. The Missouri
River was only slightly above the flood
stage and should be back to normal by
today, according to the weather
service.
Columbians who slogged through the
puddles Monday will not quickly forget
the 54 9 mches ( 137.3 centimeters) of
snow that plagued the city beginning
in November. The total reached last
week was 8.7 inches ( 21.8 centimeters)
above the previous record, which was
set in 1911- 1- 2.
Evangelist to make final resurrection try
REEDS SPRING, Mo. ( UPI) Tent
evangelist Daniel Rogers said Monday
he will make a final attempt today to
resurrect his frozen 80- year-- old mother
from the dead.
Rogers said if his bid failed to resur-rect
Gladys Rogers frozen since her
Feb. 2 death he would honor an
earlier promise to Missouri authorities
to bury her body Wednesday.
He said he would not request more
tone if he fails to raise his mother's
body in his third resurrection attempt
in the past two weeks at the Clarkson
Mortuary.
If he changes his mind, however, au-thorities
said state law could be then- hand- s
from forcing Rogers to bury the
body if it were preserved and sealed
' and therefore not a health hazard.
Bill Kirch, prosecuting attorney in
Stone County where the body is located,
said Monday, " There's nothing as far
as I know that's illegal about keeping a
body frozen"
The director of the state's bureau of
vital records, Charles Bell, agreed. " As
long as it doesn't constitute a public
health hazard, we're powerless to do
anything," he said.
State officials also said they have no
reason to believe Rogers will break the
agreement. But in case that happens,
they have been examining their legal
options to force bunal of the corpse.
Dr. Olin Griffin, a state health offi-cer,
said if Rogers fads to honor Wed-nesday's
burial date, he will refer the
matter to the state attorney general's
office.
" He ( Rogers) told me on the tele-phone
he would bury her on the 29th and
if he does not, I am gomg to turn this
over to Assistant Attorney General
Luren Wood," Gnffin said.
Wood said Monday if Rogers did not
proceed with the burial he might ask
the Stone County Circuit Court to order
the evangelist to do so by declaring the
body a public nuisance on moral
grounds.
But a lack of complaints, about the
body from area residents seems to
indicate they do not consider it a
nuisance, Kirch said.
-- Inside today r
Climbing the waiting list
Rosie Lee Murphy is one of 150 persons waiting for an
apartment owned by the Columbia Housing Authority. She
used to be No. 62 on the waiting list; now she is No. 10.
Why Mrs. Murphy and the others are waiting and what
the housing authority is doing about it is the subject of a
story in People, Page 5.
, He's still a boy of summer
One of the boys of summer, Johnny Bench, is now 30. To
him, the season is a grind.
" Is this what it's like to be 30?" he asks.
Roger Kahn talks with Johnny Bench in today's Sports
section, Page 5A.
And tomorrow
Wednesday is savings day h j
Wednesday is the big coupon day for lly
Columbia Missourian readers. With IX
spring making its second visit this year, dCf
you'll want to get out of the house and " sTgf
take along the many savings offered in 1fS Missourian coupons.
Jn town today
9 a. m. County Court meeting, County- Cit- y Building. --
MkwiellstiBgBaPagel3 ArUaEpperses r OfgKMS 4w isdhaborta for school board seat
By Karen Woolford
Missourian staff writer
The Columbia Board of Education is still showing signs of
the " close- knitnes- s" of past years, says Aran Epperson. As
one of three candidates for two seats on the board, he hopes
to break into the tight circle April 4 with the promise of a
fresh approach and new ideas.
Epperson, 40, is a cooperative extension specialist with
the University College of Public and Community Services.
He spends most of his tune consulting with Missouri park
boards, city councils and school districts on finances, bond- issue-s
and federal grants. He ran unsuccessfully for the
school board two years ago.
" We are suffering from the close- knitne- ss of years past
6-- -, ' & n -- .. f " v , t Schi eictsin ' 78
"" ummmmitmMmmmmtmiiimmmiiumA in i in ammimmm! mt.
between administrators and the school board," Epperson
says. " They apparently had made their decisions before-hand
and bad come to the meeting to approve them.
" The public is concerned about what goes on outside the
board meetings. There is the feeling mat derisions are stfll
being made under the table and in the back offices."
The results of a sruvey he commissioned show over-whelming
support for a state audit of the school system,
Epperson says. From 73 to 80 percent of those polled
favored the audit, in spite of the cost This reflects an in-terest,
if not dissatisfaction, in how district business Is
being conducted, he says. -
He can provide a new perspective on old problems, he
( See CANDIDATE, Page 14)